“We call Him God whose peculiar attributes
cannot belong to the nature of any other; for, as He is called the
Unbounded because He is boundless on every side, it must of necessity
be the case that it is no other one’s peculiar attribute to be
called unbounded, as another cannot in like manner be boundless.
But if any one says that it is possible, he is wrong; for two things
boundless on every side cannot co-exist, for the one is bounded by the
other. Thus it is in the nature13031303 Lit., “thus
it is nature.”
of things that the unbegotten is one. But if he possesses a
figure, even in this case the figure is one and incomparable.13041304 We have adopted an
emendation here. The text has: “Even thus the
incomparable is one.” Wherefore He is called the Most
High, because, being higher than all, He has the universe subject to
Him.”